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Object type

Museum number

1933,0610.13

Description

The wise man and the wise woman, standing, full-length; at left, the wise man holding a pair of scales and a right-angle; she looks at a mirror with an image of the crucified Christ; her lips are padlocked and a large key hovers nearby; her belt is a serpent and her feet are clovenWoodcut

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Dimensions

Height: 265 millimetres

Width: 230 millimetres

Curator's comments

The complete print includes two columns of letterpress on either side of the woodcut. A complete version, hand-coloured is in Amsterdam. The wise woman derives from a woodcut print by Anton Woensam von Worms.

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The wise man and the wise woman, standing, full-length; at l, the wise man holding a pair of scales and a right-angle; she looks at a mirror with an image of the crucified Christ; her lips are padlocked and a large key hovers nearby; her belt is a serpent and her feet are cloven Woodcut